On: Making Rust binaries smaller by default

[elteto]

I don’t see how zero cost abstraction has anything to do with binary size. It’s about runtime efficiency of language features.

Optimizing binary size is a worthy and important goal because some people have uses cases where it matters. If you are not one of those people why fret about it?

[JohnFen → elteto]

> I don’t see how zero cost abstraction has anything to do with binary size.

But binary size is absolutely a cost. Whether or not it's a cost that matters to you is a different question, but it's still a cost.